In a recent Reddit AMA session, futurist Michio Kaku detailed how the first contact with alien life could turn out.
Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says the discovery is "just the beginning" and that it could take up to five years to retrieve all the artefacts.
The robotic spacecraft landed on the Red Planet in 2008 to explore its surface and atmospheric history and find evidence of water.
Scientists say that if deforestation extends 20% of its original area, it may be too late to save the Amazon rainforest.
The Juno probe was hovering above Jupiter's clouds, around 137,264 to 200,937 km away, when it captured the time-lapse sequence of images.
The sun's surface is surrounded by a magnetic field that acts as a barrier to stop massive solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections.
The deep-sea predators were so elusive that it took scientists decades to identify that a new species exists in the Atlantic Ocean.
New research revealed that water on the moon is more widespread and immobile than previously thought.
Scientists used satellites, machine learning and ship-tracking tech to shed light on the extent of commercial fishing worldwide.
Palaeontologists found a treasure trove of well-preserved Triassic period fossils on land that the Trump administration removed from the Bears Ears Monument.
The Nasa-backed project could ultimately improve efficiency of the astronauts on deep-space missions.
Scientists used Nasa's Hubble telescope to make the most precise measurements of the Universe's expansion rate till date.
Many of the structures are made of limestone and would slowly dissolve from the chemicals in the polluted precipitation.
Humans may have used places where sound echoed the most as "hot-spots" to visually represent language.
Definitive identification is currently impossible due to damage to the seal, but Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers revealed why they believe it is connected to Isaiah.
Evidence that we have entered the Anthropocene epoch has been presented by scientists.
The skeletal remains are those of a 170cm tall adult male, possibly a "powerful leader" who was directly connected with the Yamato imperial court.
The seven-year-long work on the system shows that West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at a rapid rate.
Scientists raced as many as 12 bird species on an enclosed track to understand and relate their locomotive traits to those of long-extinct dinosaurs.
The first mission of the vehicle will be an uncrewed flight to the far side of the moon sometime in 2020.
Nasa spent eight years modifying a structure that took only two years to build.
Victor Buso was testing a new telescope camera mounted on the top of his home when he made the unique discovery.
A grey seal found with a yellow frisbee embedded in her neck was released back into the wild after undergoing five months of rehabilitation at an RSPCA centre.
An archaeologist noted a small error in Egyptian pyramids and conducted a series of tests to posit how ancient Egyptians would have built these massive structures.
The storm – the largest in the solar system – is about to calm down and will eventually cease to exist.
Jellyfish is a regular meal in Asian countries and the Danish team behind the crisps research believe it could make it more mainstream for Western culture.
Astronauts can live in the suit for six days without taking it off. Food and waste will remain in the suit.
Researchers are exploring the depths of the merged Sac Actun and Dos Ojos underwater caves and believe the site could also be connected to other closely-located systems.
It was previously believed that the ancient islanders became extinct around 30 years after European colonisers made first contact with them.
Cassini was more than 600,000km away from Saturn when the images for the mosaic were taken.